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The fact that animals – and ultimately humans as well – can rise to the air as if gravity did not exist has always exerted enormous fascination on us. Biophysics has allowed us to understand and analyse this fact. Moreover, it is quite “typical” for the stunning capacity of evolution to use every imaginable niche and push it to its limits by placing, step by step, “One stone upon another”.
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Glaeser, G., Paulus, H.F., Nachtigall, W. (2017). The fascination remains. In: The Evolution of Flight. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57024-2_8
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